Friday, November 30, 2007

Children’s Defense Fund 2007 Report, “America’s Cradle to Prison Pipeline”

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Foreword

Part I:
Chapter 1- An Overview of Key Factors Contributing to America’s Cradle to Prison Pipeline® Crisis

* Eric and Frankie: Children Born into the Pipeline
* Pervasive Poverty and Racial Disparities
* A Need for a Comprehensive Continuum of Support from Birth to Adulthood
* Case Study Findings in Ohio and Mississippi: A Guide for Action
* An Ounce of Prevention Is Most Cost-Effective in Long Run
* 2015 Millennium Development Goals: A Policy Agenda for
* Dismantling the Pipeline

Chapter 2- Faces of Children at Risk of or in the Pipeline by Photographer Steve Liss
* Poverty
* Race
* Single Parents
* Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Need Support
* Unmet Health and Mental Health Needs
* Criminalizing Children at Younger Ages
* Homelessness
* Girls in the Pipeline
* Substance Abuse
* Juvenile Detention
* Child Gun Deaths
* Intergenerational Transmission of Violence
* Need for Community Supports, Role Models, Mentors and Positive Alternatives to the Streets

Part II:  Case Studies of Children in or at Risk of the Pipeline in Ohio and Mississippi by Julia Cass and Connie Curry

Part III:  Afterward- The Next Movement: Saving Our Children and Youth and Our Nation’s Future and Soul

Part IV: Appendices
Examples of Promising Approaches to Help Children Avoid and Escape the Pipeline
Selected Research on Risk Factors Contributing to the Cradle to Prison Pipeline
Selected 50-State Data

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